Good freaking gravy. This episode was jam packed and it's hard to pick out my favorite moment, but I will say this:

The Gilbert siblings did a bad bad thing. For the sake of enjoying this episode I'm just going to accept that the thousands of off-screen vampires they killed tonight don't have personalities or loved ones. Remember in season one when Damon was almost beaten to death and set on fire by the understandably miffed boyfriend of ONE vampire he killed?

I hope nobody spreads the word that the Gilbert assassins live in Mystic Falls. Or perhaps the big bad of season 5 will be a mob with laser sighted pitchforks.